Re: [XeTeX] font test

2016-08-25 Thread Philip Taylor
I would be happy to experiment with it for setting the Greek text (polytonic) in /A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek MSS in the Lambeth Palace Library/ [1]. ** Phil. [1] https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/Research/LPL/Greek-MSS/Catalogue.pdf Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

[XeTeX] :letterspace oddities

2016-08-25 Thread Philip Taylor
For some time now I have been partially aware of some oddities in the XeTeX implementation of :letterspace, but it was only today that my thoughts crystallised sufficiently for me to attempt to record them on- list : 1) Search functionality. For : \font \errorfont = "Copperplate Gothic Bold:le

Re: [XeTeX] :letterspace oddities

2016-08-25 Thread Will Robertson
On 26 Aug 2016, at 2:32 AM, Philip Taylor wrote: > > 2) \fontdimen 2 is not affected by the :letterspace parameter; arguably it > should be, such that interword space is stretched in proportion to > interletter space (and perhaps \fontdimens 3, 4 & 7 should be modified as > well, and perhaps e